I read this while aware that it's an overview of a long and complex segment of history that I know little about. In that spirit, it's quite successful and has inspired me to order the first of the Norwich trilogy at my local library. But I did begin to wince at the repetitive descriptors Brownwor...
Even the army was unrecognizable; the traditional Roman infantry had given way to barbarian cavalry, and the orderly legions were now a strange, heterogeneous mix with each group sporting different armor and speaking a different language. Emperors were dutifully crowned in the East and the West, ...